In this special episode, Dr. Adam Striker shares clips from ANESTHESIOLOGY 2021, featuring luminaries from the specialty, including ASA’s current and past presidents: Drs. Randall Clark, Beverly Philip, and Mary Dale Peterson. Listen in as leaders from the field discuss topics ranging from ASA’s leadership and communications efforts to the opioid crisis, Alternative Payment Models, the Perioperative Surgical Home, and the challenges women anesthesiologists face today. Recorded by TopMedTalk in October 2021, at the ASA Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.